Smilies After UBB Import

[DVD Plaza]

After importing posts from UBB, smilies the old posts end up as bb code IMG tags instead of actual smilies - causing headaches as I'm disabling the IMG tag at the moment.

Smilies inserted into new posts via vBulletin are fine.

[Mike Sullivan]

My guess is that the smilie <img> tag was in a different format than what the importer expected. Unfortunately, this is often a pain to get around. You could write a script that changes the [img] tags to smilies. Shouldn't be too hard, but I need to see what's inside the [ img] ... [/ img] tag before I can help.

[DVD Plaza]

No worries, here's one of them:

[ img ]http://www.dvdplaza.com.au/dcafe/smile.gif[ /img ]

(Have inserted the spaces so that you can see the code)

Thanks Ed

[opus]

wouldn't the smiles just turn into ; )

[DVD Plaza]

Nah UBB converts smilies into HTML before saving the message, and converts it back to a smilie if you edit the post. vBulletin on the other hand keeps it as a smilie - and replaces it with the equivalent graphic "on the fly" when you display the post.

[DVD Plaza]

bump

[Mike Sullivan]

100% untested. Note that there are lines you have to duplicate for it to work correctly (in one pass).

[DVD Plaza]

Excellent, that looks like exactly what I need - thanks Ed I'll let you know how I go

[Steve Machol]

Did this work? I have the same problem with all my imported UBB posts and would like to correct it.

[DVD Plaza]

Whoops, sorry for not following that back up - yes it did, go for it!

[Steve Machol]

Question, it looks like I need to duplicate this line for each smilie (of course using my own URL):

$text = str_replace('[ img]http://www.dvdplaza.com.au/dcafe/smile.gif[/img]', ':)', $text);

Does each line still start with '$text =' or do I need to give each one a different variable name, i.e., $text2, $text3, etc.?

[Mike Sullivan]

They all start with $text -- you just change the URL and the smilie code.

[Steve Machol]

Thanks Ed! Sorry for being dense, but do I add all of these at once and then run the script, or do I add one at a time?

[Steve Machol]

One other question. I have some broken message icons as well. Would this line fix these (minus the space after '<' of course):

$text = str_replace('< img src="" alt="" border="0">', ' ', $text);

[Mike Sullivan]

You can either add them all at once and run the script just once, or keep replacing that one line and run it for each smilie. I'd recommend the former.

As for message icons, how'd they get into the message?